Haulout at Juneau July 3, 2013

24 July 2013 | posted at Craig

Elsie Hulsizer

Photo: Osprey 's bent propeller

In Juneau Steve arranged with Harri Commerical Marine, the owners of Juneau's only haulout facility, to have Osprey taken out of the water to replace the propeller. He considered hiring a diver instead, but remembering how tightly the propeller had fit when he put it on, was concerned a diver wouldn't be able to get it off.

When Osprey came out of the water and we saw the propeller, we discovered it was not only bent but it had cavitation erosion from the 30 hours of running after we bent it. We would not have made it to Seattle on that prop.

It took only a few minutes to replace the propeller and put on a new zinc (the one we had had put on in Seattle in May was completely gone, apparently fallen off.)

The whole thing cost $600, less than the $1,000 Steve had estimated. The facility had only one price for a haulout and that included pressure washing the slime off the bottom so Osprey went back cleaner than it came out. We were back in the water and in our slip within three hours.

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Steve and Elsie Hulsizer (author of Glaciers, Bears and Totems and Voyages to Windward)

About:

Elsie and Steve Hulsizer have sailed northwest waters since arriving in Seattle via sailboat from Boston in 1979. [...] Elsie is the author of "Glacier, Bears and Totems: Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska" (Harbour Publishing, 2010) and "Voyages to Windward: Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island's West Coast" (Harbour Publishing, 2005).
Steve has 300,000 miles at sea on freighters, destroyers, submarines, fishboats, and sailboats. He has built and repaired naval ships, fishboats, and ferries.
See Elsie's website for more information and photographs
http://home.earthlink.net/~ejhulsizer/index.html

2017: local cruising including South Puget Sound and San Juan Islands
2016:north up West Coast VI, across QC Sound to central BC coast
2015: trip to SE Alaska
2014: Seymour and Belize Inlets through Nakwakto Rapids
2013: SE Alaska and back.
2012: from Seattle up the west coast of Vancouver [...]

Island, then across Queen Charlotte Sound to the mainland and the Great Bear Rainforest. We got as far north as Kitimat and the Gardner Canal.
Past blogs (still on the site) cover trips to Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) in 2009, a to BC's north coast in 2010 and to Southeast Alaska in 2011.